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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 7:32:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2010 10:25:06 GMT
I would say the repeated use of the word 'change' to be a Costaism, based on the issues I read.
Hmmm, five pages wasted on a banal conversation that seems no nearer to it's conclusion isn't going to tempt me back on board.
If Thundercracker is so obsessed with TV, why do all his screens show static?
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 10:38:50 GMT
He might like TV, but does he have the means to pay for it??
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 14, 2010 10:48:39 GMT
Well the artwork or at least the character designs are much better, far less movie style than the first 6 issues, but both characters appear to have new robot mode modes again.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 10:50:52 GMT
I'm sure they'll change again when Don returns for issue 14.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2010 11:48:35 GMT
He might like TV, but does he have the means to pay for it?? On page 6, Bumblebee threatens Thundercracker with being shopped to the TV Licence people if he doesn't come to play with him. -Ralph |
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 12:07:03 GMT
Take that, Thundercracker!
BBC Documentaries come at a high price!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2010 12:10:03 GMT
"You have to pay for the iPlayer too, Decepti-creep!"
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 12:12:01 GMT
Unless Thundercracker's hideout is in the UK, he won't be able to access iPlayer. Say, that's the kind of plot hole IDW love to put in their comics!  |
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Post by jameso on Sept 14, 2010 12:21:51 GMT
All of that conversation in those pages could have been done in one page! I feel sorry for the artist really, in Marvel style his plot would have read 'pages 1-5, Bumblebee and Thundercracker talk'.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 14, 2010 12:31:50 GMT
It needs that many pages. Friendship shouldn't be taken lightly!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2010 12:37:50 GMT
Unless Thundercracker's hideout is in the UK, he won't be able to access iPlayer. Say, that's the kind of plot hole IDW love to put in their comics! But! Perhaps Thundercracker has used his Advanced Transformer Skills to hack into the iPlayer feed. HIS MISUSE OF LICENCE FEE PAYERS MONEY MUST BE STOPPED. NO MATTER THE COST. -Ralph |
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 14, 2010 12:45:20 GMT
As long as it remains at friendship... I don't want to see the appearance of Bumblecracker in a few issues time.
James, I believe someone on the IDW forums has compressed the preview conversation into one page using the magic of Copy And Paste.
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Post by jameso on Sept 14, 2010 15:56:31 GMT
As long as it remains at friendship... I don't want to see the appearance of Bumblecracker in a few issues time. James, I believe someone on the IDW forums has compressed the preview conversation into one page using the magic of Copy And Paste. Ha! Some interesting talk about the decompression in that thread, but really I don't think you can cut and paste the dialogue over the existing artwork, the whole thing should be redrawn. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2010 10:06:56 GMT
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Post by legios on Sept 15, 2010 12:16:32 GMT
Interesting diversity of opinion between those two reviews.
I have to say the preview doesn't entirely fill me with rapt interest in this comic. It appears that it is intentional that Thundercracker is talking like he is in a mediocre sitcom but this does mean that he says very little that is of interest. This is where it fails as a preview - a conversation can be enough to sell me on a comic, if it is an interesting conversation. This isn't, it is extremely banal and therefore doesn't exactly grab my interest.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2010 12:49:44 GMT
It appears that it is intentional that Thundercracker is talking like he is in a mediocre sitcom Which is a great idea. Unfortunately he talks just like every other character in a Mike Costa scripted comic, so it reads the same. -Ralph |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 16, 2010 1:18:35 GMT
If Thundercracker is so obsessed with TV, why do all his screens show static? He lost the signal. He's pissed off because Bumblebee's stopping him from sorting it out and he doesn't want to miss Home & Away. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2010 7:39:12 GMT
I do love Thudnercracker's line to Bumblebee though:
"Yeah. I don't think this friendship is working out"
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Post by blueshift on Sept 16, 2010 7:46:10 GMT
I imagine the real answer is that the artist didn't want to draw dozens of tiny tv images and so left it to the colourist to sort out, the colourist didn't want to become an artist so make it all static.
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 16, 2010 7:48:56 GMT
And damn is TC pissed that Bumblebee turned off his favourite episode of That Static Show on the last page of the preview!
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 16, 2010 16:33:47 GMT
I imagine the real answer is that the artist didn't want to draw dozens of tiny tv images Shouldn't he have drawn less telly's then? That'd be a smarter way of cheating. |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 16, 2010 16:47:34 GMT
Or editorial could have caught it by asking the writer to put a line in about the TV's being turned off, such as Bumblebee scrambling the transmissions to get Emocracker to listen to him.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2010 16:56:01 GMT
Thundercracker: Why are all my TV's off? Bumblebee: You didn't pay the TV License fee  |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 18, 2010 11:57:20 GMT
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 18, 2010 18:28:22 GMT
Ha!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 18, 2010 22:53:06 GMT
I'm still confused by the cover. Why does a jet fighter need a robot with a hand gun on top of it??
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Post by legios on Sept 20, 2010 19:19:35 GMT
I'm still confused by the cover. Why does a jet fighter need a robot with a hand gun on top of it?? I'm not entirely sure that it does in all honesty...... Also, the way that perspective has crawled away to die on that image aggravates me. Apparently Thundercracker either has one v-stab at the rear of his aircraft mode like an F-22 and one halfway along his fuselage or space is being warped by some unimaginably enormous mass in the vicinity. The repurposing of those pages is absolutely hilarious though. Far more entertainment value there than the actual preview. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2010 19:12:25 GMT
Thundercracker is clearly annoyed that Sky have switched off his digital TV subscription so in the last panel he switches off one of the TV's in disgust.
Either that or he wanted to watch less TV so he switched off one of the TV's!
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